Widgets won’t display – Need Help

Hey everyone. I am having an issue with both my right and left sidebars. Neither of them will display widgets when I try to add them. It will say “currently using 1 widget, 2 widgets” etc., but they will not display on the page, nor are the widget codes in the files.

I had been making adjustments in the html sidebar files because of certain restrictions from WordPress. However, it has set me back because now I cannot properly use my widgets! lol. I would really like to be able to use widgets, as I have some links and what-not I’d like to display via widgets.

The adjustments I made (aside from a few ads, which haven’t seemed to cause any problems) were based on manually adding a sidebar box with a few links. Removing said box does not resolve the issue, so I’m guessing it’s just a matter of a closing html tag or something. However, I only have basic html knowledge and very little experience with WordPress.

Anyone know whats wrong?

I’m new around here, so any help at all is very appreciated! Thanks in advance.